## **Research:** ## The ultimate goal of my research program is twofold: (1) to characterize and understand the (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes underlying core aspects of social vision, aversive learning, cognition-emotion interactions, emotional reactivity, and pain perception, (2) to apply the basic knowledge of core processes obtained from studies of healthy populations to better delineate the dysfunctions of basic (neuro-)cognitive and affective processes in fear, anxiety, and pain.   ## **Main Research Topics:** ## ### **1. Experimental clinical psychology and affective neuroscience:** ### * Biased emotion processing in (Social) Anxiety * Electro-cortical correlates of social fear conditioning * Neural correlates and differentiation of anticipatory anxiety and phasic fear * Contextual influences on face processing ### **2. Experimental pain research:** ### * Affective modulation of pain * Affective and cognitive determinants of placebo and nocebo effects * Anticipation of pain and its relationship to anxiety